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Scarlet and Black: 4a Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century
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Stendhal, Margaret R B Shaw (Introduction by)
It mirrors, rather than paints, mobile and revealing glimpses of life as it was whiled away in the climate of fear and greedy drawing-room conformity that followed Waterloo. Julien Sorel, the novel's restless, ambitious hero, rebels against his circumstances and wills himself to make something of his life by adopting a code of hypocrisy. On the ...
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